SAX - P does something different.

[oz_borne]

Guys and gals all over the world,

come togehter, RIGHT NOW>>>>>>> sing with me!!!!!

COME TO GETHER RIGHT...... ok i'll stop.

to the point...in the newsletter it was let slip that things could be hotting up on the meet front, i'm aware of jay arrangeing something at Silverstone but am not sure how far it has been taken.


NOW THEN NOW THEN, we need your thoughts. What would you say if SAX-P were to organise a weekend or fun and frolics, to follow the same kinda format as the first sax-p meet in Nottingham of activity and a stop over? and for the hardcore out there may be a stop over before too, so a whole...

Friday night stop over, Saturday activity, Saturday night out and stay over, Sunday go home format.</font></font>

NOW i'm not saying next week we'll be doing it, what i'm saying is in 3 months, could you have spare ££££ knocking about to do something like like this.

I know atleast half of the active posters on the site are students, so this could be a challenge for you -
RAID THOSE PIGGY BANKS</font>

Obviously it's up to you as to when you wanna come and go etc.

Down to the nitty gritty.

If you weren't able to have that kinda money, what kinda money could you afford, please choose from....

£30 - £50
£50 - £80
£80 - £100
£100 +

remember i'm not talking petrol too.....which brings me to my next point</font>.....

I cannot say most people live BLAH BLAH BLAH, what i can say though, is that
Nottingham</font> seems to be quite central, and is attacked at all angles by lots of big blue road on a map. SO it would be quite easy to get to.

Would people be willing to travel this far? Southerners i'm sorry, and northerners i'm sorry too, but this seems about the most fair way to do it?


This would be a weekend to remember</font> and something that will help move sax-p to the next level, what with Regional meet organisers and regional meets taking a bigger role in the growth of the community.


A lot of writing there, for a simple notion....

would you be up for a form of get together in and around Centrall-ish England costing a bit of money?</font></font>

oz
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[al_VTR]

YES !!!</font>

to be honest you're never going to be able to please everyone with location but hopefully most will agree.

what kind of activities are we talking Oz ?

[Craig]

i would oz smileys/smiley2.gif

[DevilDamo]

yes i would but isn't the christmas party going to be something like that?

[Yates]

only bout hour n half away from me! str8 road there practically, probs only have round 50 to spend really tho

[JamieB]

if the sax-p meet back in november is anything to go by, ytou can definetely count me in on this one!!! just keep me away from any fires and dont let me drive like a nutter around any fields!!! and make sure i fill up my car with petrol before i leave this time!! lol smileys/smiley17.gif

[oz_borne]

will do

keep it coming guys.

Think we would need to make it an upfront payment. I'm just voicing my opinions not setting stuff in stone.

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[pug_boe]

lol not necessary raid our piggy banks time (students) - as long as its around about the same times i get my student loan - that is october, january and april im happy lol - id be up for it

[oz_borne]

to be honest boe, i don't think it would be, but i'm not saying for definate on anything cos i don't even know

i juist wondered if peeps were up for the drive

and the money thing

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[DevilDamo]

yes i would but isn't the christmas party going to be something like that?

sorry... im not sure if this comment has been missed!?!

[Graeme]

yeah i would defo be up for this!!! smileys/smiley4.gif

[pug_boe]

oh yer i forgot about that - hmm i dont think id be able to afford something different and a christmas party

[Andyt]

Sounds like a plan. Nottingham is about 4 & half hours drive though for me. smileys/smiley5.gif

[RIBstaff]

sound good needs sorting smileys/smiley16.gif

[oz_borne]

damo - who said anything about it not being part of that.

once again, i'm getting ideas.

so what people really think, and i must say i agree, if we do something near christmas, it needs to be the christmas party with stuff to do too.

as in activity and christmas party??!

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[al_VTR]

incorporating the christmas party sounds a good plan. would mean a lot more people get to meet others if they only come for the party. but then theres the opportunity of staying all weekend and doing other bits if people want to

i for one will be up for the whole weekend smileys/smiley4.gif

[oz_borne]

the kinda hardcore attitude i love al!!!

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[al_VTR]

gotta be as hardcore as you can mate - makes it all worthwhile smileys/smiley17.gif

[AdamH]

i would be up for this if i could get it off work.. but thats not the only problem... i live right on the south coast.. so it will be quite far and im pretty sure my 1.1 will blow up on me smileys/smiley19.gif

[Craig]

it sure does al

[DevilDamo]

the impression i got from your post was that this was going to be something organised as well as the christmas party. i know that if the party does go ahead, a central location (i.e. nottingham) will be chosen and would be something 99% of sax-p members will attend.

so... as we are getting ideas, things need to be cast in stone as it is around this time when places start to book up for christmas. or... the christmas party could be joined in with something over the new year? again, just suggestions. but i know there will be a few people who have already made plans on or over christmas and new year.

[saxx]

id need to know in advance so i could book work off and go scavaging from some overtime hours!!!


could go cheap and camp?! always a giggle!

[Jon]

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[DevilDamo]

and where are you from then jon? smileys/smiley9.gif

[Jon]

hehe bout 25 mins from cesspoolsmileys/happy.gif

[oz_borne]

Guys this is why this has been posted now, and not in a months time. I reckon 3 months notice should be enough for anyone to get time off!, and if not......oooh you're sick for a weekend

Jonno, that's a bit too west don't u reckon?!?!?!?

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oh and you owe me a fiver

[Jon]

north west is cooliosmileys/happy.gif
im like a poor man anyway so i wont be going i dunno why im contributing lol

[DevilDamo]

oh and you owe me a fiver

and you owe me £15 you tight fcuk!!! smileys/smiley17.gif

edit:- sorry, i meant JONNO owes me, not oz. i was adding to jonno's owing list.

[oz_borne]

u what!!!!

how and where and why?

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[oz_borne]

ok, cleared this one up, no need to worry, i don't owe money to peeps.

so we're saying something like this couold go ahead, what sor t of things are we looking at?

any suggestions as to wha activity we could do guys and gals, believe me, there are some that have been thought about and discussed, we are just getting your ideas too.

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[DevilDamo]

activities along the lines of...

laser quest (although it lasts just 20mins per game).
ice skating (some people can, some people cant, does hurt your ankles, but still a good laugh).
swimming (i can just picture it now... sax-p members in swimming trunks and bikini's on the next newsletter... hehe!).

[starkie]

ill be well up for this.

Damo&gt; Swimming/Ice skating hahaha wont be gettign em near an ice rink cant skate for shit smileys/smiley3.gif

[Suie]

i like skating... can do that!!

[Andyt]

activities along the lines of...

laser quest (although it lasts just 20mins per game).
ice skating (some people can, some people cant, does hurt your ankles, but still a good laugh).
swimming (i can just picture it now... sax-p members in swimming trunks and bikini's on the next newsletter... hehe!).

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Paintballing would be sweet. smileys/smiley20.gif

[oz_borne]

i like that idea andy

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[DevilDamo]

wont be gettign em near an ice rink cant skate for shit smileys/smiley3.gif

that's the whole fun in it!!! smileys/smiley17.gif

my suggestions were possible activities but then i cant see any of them going ahead due to what i put in brackets.

paint balling is a good idea but as i have already been told that has been suggested, i therefore did not mention it.

[no_fears_]

well i'm up for doing something. Paintballing would be kool too

[jaybiss]

oz u kno what i think


PAINTBALLIN smileys/smiley17.gif

[RIBstaff]

damos ideas are weak smileys/smiley3.gif

[oz_borne]

bur still more than other people have given monsieur!!!!

bar- paintballin of course

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[Simo]

damos ideas are weak smileys/smiley3.gif

Although, stronger than any ideas you've contributed to this thread smileys/smiley2.gif

[jaybiss]

strip club!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

u kno it makes sense

paintballin then a strip club

[DevilDamo]

damos ideas are weak smileys/smiley3.gif

im sorry rich... ill try better next time.

how about... a sax-p adventure course like they used to do on...

http://www.c64gg.com/Images/K/Krypton_Factor_title.gif

and what a classic program that was. we could do something like... ab-seiling, rock climbing, etc... although those things are a bit pricey.

how about a day at silverstone testing sport and performance cars? rally day?

go-karting?

[saxx]

we're going quad biking for my friends bday - that could b an idea for saxp?

[oz_borne]

ooohh

quad biking, go karting, adventure, spotted and jotted.

Any of these sorts of things in or around central england?

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[saxx]

no idea but must b if they bumpkins down ere can organise it!!

[saxx]

they do it in cheshire - is that central?

Click Me Click Me (http://www.adventurecheshire.co.uk/)

[DevilDamo]

looks god alicia. they have everything there and that is the kind of thing i was talking about.

i took this from their website...

Manchester: 35 Mins
Liverpool: 35 Mins
Chester: 20 Mins
Warrington: 20 Mins

that is quite far up north. its fine for simo, etc... he may even know the place living only 20mins from it. im about 210 miles from it.

as this is something that may co-incide with the christmas party, the central location needs to be established.

ill have a quick look now at a central(ish) location.

[oz_borne]

That's great alicia, thanks

have been looking at

paintballing (http://www.goballistic.co.uk/paintball_site_Nottingham/index.asp)

looks very tempting

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[Andyt]

looks god alicia. they have everything there and that is the kind of thing i was talking about.

i took this from their website...

Manchester: 35 Mins
Liverpool: 35 Mins
Chester: 20 Mins
Warrington: 20 Mins

that is quite far up north. its fine for simo, etc... he may even know the place living only 20mins from it. im about 210 miles from it.

as this is something that may co-incide with the christmas party, the central location needs to be established.

ill have a quick look now at a central(ish) location.

210 miles is not really THAT far to travel Damo.


Notts is about 300 miles from me.

The adventure place 235 miles.

[edit] and they do paintballing as well.

[DevilDamo]

i know andy... that is why i have done a little research...

to arrange a central area for us sax-p members, i have taken two areas which i think are a reasonable distance apart. these areas are mine (camberley, surrey) and scott's (glasgow).

i have put these two areas into multimap and it tells me that we are around 415 miles (6 hours 47 minutes) apart. so in my opinion, the middle would be around 208 miles, which is where this cheshire thing is (that alicia posted).

we could have our christmas party in or around manchester, which is about half an hour away and then co-incide it with this adventure course.

[Andyt]

I'm glad you can see sense Damo smileys/smiley4.gif

Party in Machester would be good as well.

[oz_borne]

good plan damo, also check out the party bit on that website, it looks good.

and as for looking at the multimap thing LMFBO! © sax-p
fair though i spose, which is why i started by talking about the notts area, as that is kinda central to and doens't involve taking lots of different red and yellow and blue roads on a map smileys/smiley2.gif


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[saxx]

well was just a site that popped up on google when i asked for centra england!!

[Andyt]

Edited - was suposed to say.

good plan damo, also check out the party bit on that website, it looks good.

and as for looking at the multimap thing LMFBO! © sax-p! © sax-p
fair though i spose, which is why i started by talking about the notts area, as that is kinda central to and doens't involve taking lots of different red and yellow and blue roads on a map smileys/smiley2.gif


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Neither does Manchester though. smileys/smiley2.gif

[DevilDamo]

im crap with geographical maps in my head. i though nott's was too far up north, but multimap proved me wrong.

looks like we are now getting things sorted. woo hoo.

oz... as you asked how much people could spend, etc... it wouldn't hurt giving that place a call to see how much we would be looking at, etc... it may be better (cheaper) to book soon(ish) rather than leave it nearer to christmas time. these kind of places welcome large groups so i also think a sax-p discount is in order.

as andy said, manchester would be well good to go out (even though manchester is one of britains toughest towns smileys/smiley5.gif ) there will be loads of places to stay and if we find that difficult, then we can all bunk up at simo's smileys/smiley2.gif

as there are a few sax-p members from that area, they may also know of large places to hire out for a christmas bash.

[saxx]

plus!!

it has good shoppin for the ladies!!

i searched quad biking tho - not manchester smileys/smiley5.gif

[Andyt]

That website has party facilities as well. Take a look.

[saxx]

now ya quote makes sense smileys/smiley2.gif

[DevilDamo]

i have just looked at the private parties. looking good smileys/smiley20.gif

there must be a few members who have heard or even been there before? could do with a little past experience.

the girls can go shopping in the trafford centre while the boys kick arses at paintballing.

[saxx]

i like paintballin but it hurts!!

and im not gettin hicky bruises again!

[DevilDamo]

i have never ever been so i am well up for it. first time for everything and what a better time than with the sax-p crew. hehe!

[Andyt]

I've never been either.

Looks fun though!

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[RIBstaff]

1.paintballing-yes
2.scrambling-yes
3.fook off barn party some where-yes
4.bbq party
5.down some town on the pizz
6.some sort of performance track day
7.rolling road day then party

[al_VTR]

i've never been paintballing so that gets a vote from e. but anything along those kind of adventure lines seems pretty good to me.

[oz_borne]

oooh pain!!!!

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[saxx]

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